Michel Foucault, the courage of truth and the ethics of an intellectual / Priscila Piazentini Vieira.
The relationship between two distinct periods in Michel Foucault's work is the starting point for this book. In "Truth and Power," an interview Foucault gave in 1976, he states that to create a new politics of truth is an intellectual's main task. In this book, Priscila Piazentin...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2022 English/International |
| Summary: | The relationship between two distinct periods in Michel Foucault's work is the starting point for this book. In "Truth and Power," an interview Foucault gave in 1976, he states that to create a new politics of truth is an intellectual's main task. In this book, Priscila Piazentini Vieira analyzes Foucault's study on ancient culture and courage of truth in the 1980s as his main contribution to our construction of a new politics of truth, much diverse from modernity's prevailing understanding of it grounded on the will to knowledge. Furthermore, she analyzes Foucault's militant practice and his GIP experience from a corpus constructed by papers, courses, interviews, and books written by the philosopher between the 1970s and 1980s. By clearly linking Foucaults work on to his own militant activity, the book also aims to develop an original definition of the intellectual at the crossroad of political engagement, the production of knowledge, and the manifestation of the truth. Priscila Piazentini Vieira is a Professor in the Department of History at the Federal University of Parana, Brazil. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxxi, 165 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3031043561 9783031043567 3031043553 9783031043550 |